In The Sisters, the young narrator highlights the disconnect between individual perception and reality. Overall, Dubliners shows childhood as a condition of not fully understanding the world around them. The boys can only view the world through what they know, which is not a lot considering they are quite young. The children experience and view life differently than adults do, a common theme in Modernist literature. The narrators’ slowly begin to realize that everyone has their own perspective on life, nobody is ever going to one hundred percent understand your specific experiences as well as you do. The first section of the book Dubliners by James Joyce, revolves around childhood and how, regardless of age, all the children experience feelings of disillusionment, alienation, and entrapment within their lives. These stories illustrate the Modernist themes of alienation through how the character is feeling. Focusing on the stages of life from childhood to youth and then adulthood. In Dubliners, he chronicles the lives of the people of Dublin. Author James Joyce incorporates the modernist style of writing and point of view in his short stories, The Sisters, An Encounter, and Araby.
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